Alena Karpenka

Prisoner

Date of birth: 14 August 1983

Date of detention: 26 February 2024

Charges indicted:

Art. 367 of the Criminal Code — Slander against the President of the Republic of Belarus

Sentence: 1 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Tatsiana Kastsiuk

Prison: Prison No. 4

Groups: Cultural workers

Alena Karpenka was convicted under Article 367 of the Criminal Code for defamation of A. Lukashenka.

She was sentenced to one year and six months of imprisonment in a penal colony.

Mail address: Prison No. 4. 212011, Mahilioŭ, vulica Krupskaj 99A

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